Valerie Jablow
@vjablow
DC resident & former DCPS parent who started educationdc.net in 2015 because there was too little media coverage of public education issues in DC--and lots of right-wing ed reform propaganda about the same.
Yesterday afternoon, at M and Half St. SE, there were DC police along with other police vehicles and this unmarked black Dodge minivan w a blacked-out license plate and (white) men inside w camo on. Local terrorism--and on our dime. @freedcproject.bsky.social @thehillishome.com
SY25-26 on the left; last school year on the right. This reporting is from January 2026--just released today.
@helicoptersofdc.bsky.social: Anything on the copter that keeps flying low over close-in Capitol Hill? @thehillishome.com (Saw nothing from Capitol Police about it--but what's not to like about flying a large copter low over a dense neighborhood on a gusty day??)
1/2 @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @chmnmendelson.bsky.social @mayorbowser.dc.gov @thehillishome.com: What is stated right now on the DPW website about Monday alley collections being "completed" is a LIE. No one came by the pick up ANY trash or recycling in my alley this week thus far.
By comparison, screenshot below is from an Inquirer story yesterday. Place is north of Philadelphia w more snow & ice than DC. That road clearing is unlike anything I have seen in our neighborhood. @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @chmnmendelson.bsky.social
@cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @chmnmendelson.bsky.social @mayorbowser.dc.gov: Today, not 1, not 2, but THREE MPD cars have been parked at 5th and A NE for . . . what? I mean, the leaves sure are pretty--but I am pretty sure the K9 units don't care. Explanation please--thank you. @thehillishome.com
Oh hey, @mayorbowser.dc.gov @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @ddotdc.bsky.social: When Rumsey's heater isn't working, maybe send folks to this gigantic pool out front--or to any of the other DOZENS such deep pools on Capitol Hill streets that appear after rain bc of poor drainage. @thehillishome.com
1/2 @thehillishome.com @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social: Second power outage on Capitol Hill in a week last night. Outage map below. Still waiting to hear back from agencies & DC leaders about last week's outage on Oct. 9. One elderly neighbor crawled up stairs in the dark last night to phone it in.
2/3 Turns out, Thune's PAC (Heartland Values) has been paying rent to the USD Foundation for months this year, per FEC reporting. It was the only connection for rent that I saw in the FEC database btwn this PAC and the USD Foundation.
And so very heart-warming to know that this is all originating right here in our neighborhood! @thehillishome.com @mayorbowser.bsky.social @chmnmendelson.bsky.social
A truth teller seen this morning at the U.S. Capitol. @thehillishome.com
@thehillishome.bsky.social: This was one of TWO street trees taken out by winds yesterday on the unit block of 5th NE. (Gotta love the integrity of the 19th century metal fence supporting almost the entire weight of the tree.)
@thehillishome.bsky.social And here we go again: Power out in our neighborhood.
Oh, what do we have here? Seems the DOGE field office has not cleaned its sidewalk yet this morning! That doesn't look so efficient! But if we turn the other way, we see our EFFICIENT government has already cleaned its sidewalks (and streets!) this morning!
Nothing like liberty and justice secured by black riot fencing going up today around the entire Capitol, Library of Congress, office buildings, Supreme Court, & all roads between. (This picture was taken in the last hour, east side of the Supreme Court.) @thehillishome.bsky.social
Can someone PLEASE tell me why there is a low-flying helicopter over close-in Capitol Hill? Is there an emergency we don't know about that requires us to be sitting ducks? Picture is from my BACK YARD just now; tree is 2 stories tall. @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @thehillishome.bsky.social